Can you walk to a grocery store in your neighbourhood? How many fast-food meals did you eat last week? When was the last time you saw a doctor?
These are some of the questions in the My Health My Community online survey created by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and the Fraser Health Authority.
So why do they want to know?
Firstly, they’re no longer getting detailed information like this from the Canadian Community Health ... Read More …

Whites will be a distinct visible minority in Metro Vancouver in less than two decades, according to a new report.
After being an overwhelming majority in Metro Vancouver up until the 1980s, whites will make up only two out of five residents by the year 2031, according to projections done for Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
University of British Columbia geographer Daniel Hiebert also predicts that ethnic groups in Metro will increasingly concentrate in neighbourhood enclaves, ... Read More …

Canada is growing, but census data released today shows that it’s not because people are having more kids.
The census data released today shows that B.C.’s population is up to 4.4 million and Canada’s is up to 33.5 million. But that growth is mostly due to immigration because Canadians continue to have small families — the data shows that the average Canadian woman has just 1.5 children. In the mid-1950s, at the height of the ... Read More …

Interfaith marriage on the rise in Canada:
Vancouverite Abbe Chivers made sure before she married her firmly non-religious husband that he would support her efforts to raise their children as Jews.
Vancouver Sun ARCHIVES
October 4, 2006
RE-POSTED TO LINK TO NEW COLUMN:
Dec. 23, 2011: “Everyone loves three people of another faith: Study”
Vancouverite Abbe Chivers made sure before she married her firmly non-religious husband that he would support her efforts to raise their ... Read More …

The sign at the top of the giant onion-domed Guru Nanak Temple in Surrey reads: One God.
The signs on the traffic-filled thoroughfare in front of the exotic-looking Sikh gurdwara are strictly secular, announcing McDonald’s, Blockbuster, Save-On Foods and Zellers.
The pulsing heart of the South Asian community in Metro Vancouver resides among this swath of brand-name outlets, large new homes, traffic-filled streets and tidy townhouses centred around west Newton, near the Surrey-Delta border.
Census ... Read More …

The Conservative government often plays to religious groups, particularly conservative ones, since roughly half of the MPs in the caucus are evangelical Christians.But Stephen Harper’s Conservative minority government has surprisingly missed the mark with its decision to do away with mandatory long-form census forms, which are set to be printed this month.While evangelicals and other conservative religious people have generally appreciated Harper’s verbal caution about abortion and homosexual rights and his get-tough-on-crime philosophy ... Read More …

Topic: Asian-Canadians’ effects on social values; Discussion: Who knows? Scholars seem remarkably ignorant about immigrant populations’ beliefs on a wide range of issues
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Saturday, August 4, 2007
Column: Douglas Todd
Are Asian-Canadians strengthening conservative or liberal values across the country?
Given that nearly half the population of Greater Vancouver has origins in Asia, this is anything but what some like to call an “academic” — that is, theoretical — question.
It’s exactly ... Read More …